4 d. ago Billie Piper demands 'urgent action' for Palestinian children as she asks fans to 'spare a thought' for youngsters 'starved and traumatised' in Gaza

The 42-year-old actress shared a statement on Instagram highlighting the contrast between her own time with her children and the suffering faced by families in the conflict.

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4 d. ago Boycott the banquet, send a tweet. But ending the horror in Gaza still relies on the worst people in the world | Marina Hyde

This humanitarian catastrophe is barely of passing interest to Donald Trump. The curse of our times is how little we can do about itDay 222 of Donald Trump’s presidency, and Russia’s war in Ukraine – which he promised to end on day one – shows no sign of having got the memo. This was not a single-use Trump promise; he made it at least 53 times. Yet the US president has failed to keep it, either literally or in his favourite manner: figuratively. Can you figuratively end a war? Not even, apparently.What his most recent round of failure means, however, is that Trump is pivoting back to another war, the grotesquely horrifying and unlawful humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza. Not the way he’d phrase it, possibly. This week he swerved commenting on either Israel’s invasion of Gaza City or the mounting declarations that famine and starvation are clearly under way in the territory, and instead announced: “I think within the next two, three weeks, you’re going to have a pretty good, ...

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4 d. ago Gaza starvation is real and it is happening now, UN World Food Programme says – Middle East crisis live

Cindy McCain said she had spoken with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu about allowing more food into the stripPatrick Wintour is diplomatic editor for the GuardianThe UK, France and Germany have formally notified the UN that they have triggered the restoration of sweeping UN sanctions against Iran, giving Tehran 30 days to make concessions on access to its nuclear sites or face deeper worldwide economic isolation. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago UN food agency chief says women and children are 'starving' in Gaza and pressed Netanyahu on aid

The director of the U.N. World Food Program says it's “very evident” after a visit to Gaza that there is not enough food and that mothers and children are starving

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5 d. ago Gaza’s children being starved to death are now too weak to cry, says Save the Children chief

More and more children express the wish to be dead, top official at humanitarian aid agency says

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5 d. ago Pope demands ‘collective punishment’ end in Gaza as 10 more die of hunger

Latest deaths announced by Gaza health ministry bring starvation toll to 313, including 119 childrenChildren make up a third of outpatients treated for wounds at MSF Gaza hospitals, data showsTen Palestinians including two children have died from starvation in the last 24 hours, health authorities in Gaza said on Wednesday, as Pope Leo XIV demanded that Israel stop its “collective punishment” of the population in the besieged territory.At least 313 people have died from hunger, including 119 children, since the war in Gaza began and Israel intensified its siege on the Palestinian territory. Last week a UN-backed monitoring body confirmed that Gaza was in the throes of famine and warned that without more aid, increasing numbers of people would lose access to food. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Gaza starvation death toll keeps rising as Pope issues desperate ceasefire plea

Deaths from starvation across the Gaza Strip soar at a terrifying rate, according to local health officials, even as Israeli troops prepare for a major offensive on Gaza City and warplanes pound the community

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9 d. ago ‘Sanaa wasn’t a statistic’: Baby who ‘knew nothing but war’ dies of malnutrition as Gaza crisis deepens

A toddler died in hospital as a result of prolonged nutritional deficiency and a lack of baby formula. Tara Cobham reports on the devastating impact the Israel-Hamas war is having on Palestinian children

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9 d. ago Declaration of famine in Gaza lays bare Israel’s disregard for humanitarian duty

The IPC’s findings that a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza are starving should mark an urgent turning point in this warThe declaration on Friday of widespread famine in Gaza by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) should mark a turning point in the war. The IPC, which represents a fastidious survey of available data, is regarded as the international gold standard in nutritional crises.Long-criticised by humanitarians in other emergencies for its overabundance of caution, the IPC’s declaration of Level 5 – “catastrophic” hunger – in Gaza is a significant moment. Famine, under the IPC’s exacting criteria, requires three critical thresholds to be passed: extreme food deprivation, acute malnutrition and starvation-related deaths, all of which are now visible in Gaza. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Israel destroyed Gaza’s water plants. Now a deadly disease is spreading like wildfire

As hospitals in Gaza struggle to cope with a starvation crisis, doctors are also battling the rise of a rare disease that has left children paralysed. Medics on the frontline tell Alex Croft it is one of the most challenging medical incidents they have faced

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1 week ago Holocaust survivors demand Israel stop starving Gaza children as famine declared

'As survivors of the Holocaust and Jews who escaped the Nazis we cannot remain silent as hunger and deprivation threaten the lives of civilians in Gaza,' signatories say

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1 week ago Famine in Gaza declared despite Israeli denials as UN calls it ‘moment of collective shame for world’

Britain blames Israel for ‘moral outrage’ over refusal to allow sufficient aid into Gaza

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1 week ago The Guardian view on Gaza’s future: Israel should end the killing. Its allies must not remain complicit | Editorial

The suffering and death of Palestinians is multiplying. Seizing and occupying Gaza City would only deepen the horrorIsrael faces a stark choice. So do its allies. International condemnation pushed Israel into allowing a trickle of aid into Gaza. But it remains utterly insufficient, and Palestinians are still starving to death. Israel has killed more than 62,000 people, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s health ministry.Israel’s former intelligence chief Aharon Haliva, in charge when the Hamas atrocities of 2023 took place, was recently recorded saying that “For every person on October 7, 50 Palestinians must die. It doesn’t matter now if they are children.” That isn’t merely vengeful and obscene, it explicitly describes a war crime. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago There's a word for the EU's inaction over Gaza: racism | Shada Islam

Europe frames the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza as a humanitarian crisis rather than a deliberate political choice. There will be a moral reckoningThe president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and her team face growing criticism of the controversial EU-US tariff deal agreed in July. I am hoping for similar calls for accountability over the EU’s complicity in Israel’s unfolding genocide in Gaza. Such a reckoning is long overdue.I have watched in despair for almost two years as European governments have done little or nothing while Israel has devastated Gaza through bombings, targeted strikes and forced starvation after the 7 October attack by Hamas. There are so many sanctions at the EU’s disposal which they are still refusing to deploy; so many levers they are refusing to pull. The bloc is Israel’s biggest trading partner, accounting for 32% of Israel’s total trade in 2024. Yet at every meeting, EU leaders and foreign ministers have failed to secure the majorit...

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2 w. ago At least 57 Palestinians killed as Israel escalates attack on last major population centre in Gaza City

At least 38 aid seekers among Palestinians killed on Sunday

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2 w. ago At least 17 aid seekers killed as Israel escalates attack on last major population centre in Gaza City

Israeli airstrike on Al-Ahli Arab Hospital kills at least seven Palestinians

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2 w. ago Donald Trump's Gaza blackout as US President BANS visas for desperate and starving kids

Visas for starving and sick children from Gaza have been halted by Donald Trump's administration following pressure from a conservative activist who questioned why they were allowed into the US

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2 w. ago ‘The children in Gaza are too weak to play or sing: hunger has stolen their childhood’

As a hunger crisis in Gaza shows no signs of abating, Bryony Gooch speaks to workers at a camp where the children ‘still have hope’

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2 w. ago As Netanyahu starves Gaza, there is a whole new battle to be fought in Israel – against complacency | Aluf Benn

Here in Tel Aviv, beaches and restaurants are packed. Amid that distraction, the PM is playing his power games and purging his generalsAluf Benn is editor-in-chief of HaaretzThe extreme heatwave that has hit our region this week does not distinguish between Israelis and Palestinians. But while we Israelis hide in our air-conditioned houses, offices and cars, the besieged residents of Gaza can only add the unbearable hot and humid atmosphere to their struggle to eat, drink and sleep, in constant fear of death. The starvation crisis that has exploded in Gaza this summer, following Israeli-imposed restrictions on the flow of humanitarian aid, continues to worsen despite mounting international pressure to allow in more food, medicine and critical supplies. And the killing has never stopped, while Israel is preparing for the next stage of the war to “annihilate Hamas”.Most Israelis are self-immunised to the horrors being endured by Palestinians in Gaza. Told by our government and mainstr...

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2 w. ago Dragged away to Hell: Terrifying new October 7 footage shows kidnapped Israeli led through Gaza by Hamas terrorists as baying mob tries to lynch him... before being starved and tortured for 491 days

Ohad Ben Ami was held captive for 491 days in a tunnel in Gaza where he was starved and endured physical and psychological abuse.

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